"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid."

“The trick is to learn to see with your heart, not with your eyes”

“If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.”

“Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak.”

“I don't believe there can be a poetic novel without political consciousness. I have a strong political conscience.”

“A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good.”

“Nonviolence is not just abstention from war, fighting, or animal flesh. It is abstention from negative thoughts and negative speech.”

“What I've been thinking about recently is the idea of finite and fragility. Either we're acknowledging that our lives here are finite, this moment is finite, and that this whole world is fragile, or we're not, but it is really happening and that is really true.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“We are hurtling back into a Soviet abyss, into an information vacuum that spells death from our own ignorance. All we have left is the internet, where information is still freely available. For the rest, if you want to go on working as a journalist, it's total servility to Putin. Otherwise, it can be death, the bullet, poison, or trial—whatever our special services, Putin's guard dogs, see fit.”

Source : "Poisoned by Putin: The horror of Beslan was made still worse by the intimidation of Russia's servile media". www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2004.